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National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
East Gallery, Second Floor
One of the most influential, innovative, and talented Native American...More »

Chapter NY presents O u t, a rotating exhibition of works on paper by Patrick Berran on view in the gallery’s office. The gallery will present three of Berran’s recent drawings, on view for only one week...More »

The exhibition in the Portico Gallery presents a promised gift to the Frick Collection: seventy-five objects from the collection of Sidney R. Knafel — the finest collection of French faience in private...More »

The Whitney Biennial is an unmissable event for anyone interested in finding out what’s happening in art today. Curators Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley have been visiting artists over the past year in...More »

Alexandre Gallery presents a selection of major paintings and drawings by Hyman Bloom (1913 – 2009) in celebration of the artist’s retrospective at the MFA, Boston, opening July 13th, and the publication...More »

Curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
Trestle Gallery presents Shoshanna Weinberger: Allegories of the Invisible, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work spanning from 2014 through 2019, including several new...More »

212 Arts presents our four year anniversary exhibition. We’ve had an incredible year filled with dynamic shows, an outpouring of support, and talented artists. We feel the lineup that we have assembled...More »

440 Gallery opens the Fall season with Dislocation, encaustic and mixed media paintings by Amy Weil. In Weil’s first solo show at the gallery, she explores the space between what is revealed and what is...More »

Anne Harvey’s parents took her to France when she was still a girl. Her early skills were nurtured by her culturally progressive family. Along with her mother and aunts, she spent the rest of her life...More »

Jack Hanley Gallery presents Panspermia, Sing Omega, Jess Johnson’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In an immersive installation of new drawings, a series of quilts made in collaboration with...More »

Eleven x Seventeen is an exhibition by 21 New York Artist Members. This exhibition has a cohesive format, in which the works on paper measure 11 x 17 inches. Despite the preconditioned guidelines of scale...More »

Whenever we open our eyes, we see. But we don’t always observe. Observation is a form of attentiveness, a way of focusing on objects and parsing out their permutations, in or out of the present context....More »

RYAN LEE presents Retrospective Futurology, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Dorman. Known for the alternate realities and fantastical creatures he creates by combining antique found imagery with...More »

Anita Rogers Gallery presents THEN AGAIN, WHO DOES?, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by American artist ROBERT SZOT. .
Szot arrived in New York City from Texas eighteen years ago...More »

“To change the invisible into the visible—what happens in a state of enlightenment or nirvana—shows me what [could] be found simultaneously.”
– Suh Seung-Won
Tina Kim Gallery presents its first solo...More »

Postmasters Gallery presents Complicities, William Powhida’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in nearly five years (and almost a decade since the Brooklyn Rail published “How the New Museum Committed...More »

Wura: If we are making the same drawing over and over again and always throughout our lifetime, how would you describe it? Me: two separate/separated things connecting over an expanse
ruby: A calculated...More »

GR Gallery presents “DREAMstate”, featuring for the first time artists Joseph Lee, Erik Mark Sandberg, Dennis Osadebe and Joshua Vides in a fresh, groundbreaking group exhibition. The show puts together...More »

Foxy Production in collaboration with Helena Anrather presents Verses from the Apocalypse, an exhibition of new work by Cindy Ji Hye Kim. Comprising paintings, sculptures, and drawings across the two galleries,...More »

FIERMAN presents The Queen’s Court, a solo exhibition of never before exhibited “fire drawings” from the late 1960’s by Jimmy Wright. Executed while the artist was a student at the School of the Art Institute...More »

Klaus Gallery presents a solo project by Nancy Brooks Brody installed in the front room of the gallery. Consisting of a narrow 18-foot 8-inch length of smooth, flat lead embedded directly into the surface...More »

Robert Mallary installing The Cliffhangers on Philip Johnson and Richard Foster’s New York State Pavillion, New York World’s Fair, 1964. Mallary’s sculpture is behind scafolding at right. The sculpture...More »

Curated by William Norton
The WAH Center (The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center) presents an exhibition Material Witness curated by William Norton who has assembled artists for whom the media...More »

10 years ago, Eva Frosch & hp Portmann founded frosch&portmann with their first appearance at an art fair in the Wynwood district of Miami.
Now, they celebrate this milestone with One-Two-Three:...More »

Showcasing the breadth of the Brooklyn Museum’s exceptional works on paper collection, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper highlights more than one hundred European prints and...More »

Over the last 50 years, Nelson Stevens’ vibrant and frenetic work portrays icons of our society from Malcolm X to Stevie Wonder. At a 1970 AfriCOBRA exhibition at The Studio Museum, Nelson’s work helped...More »

Timothy Taylor, New York presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new works by British artist Annie Morris. Drawing on both personal experience and the history of art, Morris’s multi-disciplinary...More »

Skoto Gallery presents ‘Conversations and Situations: Paintings and Drawings, 1976-2019’, an exhibition of selected works by the American artist David Rich. This is his first solo exhibition at the gallery....More »

Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS from
the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College
An icon of American art, Eva Hesse produced a prodigious body of work that collapsed disciplinary boundaries...More »

All that we currently know about the life of African American visual artist and poet Joseph Cyrus Massey are a few cold facts found in official documents, vintage newspaper clippings, and a handful of...More »

kaufmann repetto presents Exhibition of the Medicines, a solo exhibition by Lily van der Stokker. Following four solo exhibitions with the gallery in Milan, this exhibition is the artist’s first with kaufmann...More »

Organized with Bob Nickas
Kerry Schuss presents works by Swedish artist Moki Cherry (1943-2009), the first exhibition of her work in New York in more than twenty years. Focused on ceramics made from...More »

For his first exhibition at Lisson Gallery New York, Egyptian artist Wael Shawky will transform the gallery into an immersive sculptural environment as part of his new work, The Gulf Project Camp. The...More »

CANADA presents 3Lakes an exhibition of new paintings by Xylor Jane and the artist’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. In conjunction with the show, CANADA and parrasch heijnen gallery published ‘Xylor...More »

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. kicks off the fall art season on the Lower East Side with an exhibition highlighting gun violence in the United States, showcasing the work...More »

Demisch Danant presents Jazz, organized in collaboration with Ricco/Maresca. Inspired by the melodies and spirit of the 1950s in Paris, this exhibition highlights unexpected syncopation and rhythms shared...More »

In collaboration with Galería Agustina Ferreyra. Chapter NY is pleased to announce The Devil Sees Beauty In A Pair Of Horns, Four Claws, And A Tail, Dalton Gata’s first exhibition in New York. The exhibition...More »

McKenzie Fine Art presents the fall season with an exhibition of new abstract paintings and drawings by Gary Petersen.
In his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Petersen continues to hone his...More »

Lesley Heller presents a solo exhibition of recent collage works by Paul Loughney in the Project Space. In this body of work, Loughney culls images from contemporary magazines—a source material he approaches...More »

Fountain House Gallery artists were presented with a quotation by the artist Lee Lozano (1930-1999) as a starting point for a discussion about the physical, psychological, and sociological nature of New...More »

I am not going to the studio to draw. Instead, I am drawing while I live. I incorporate where I am, what I am thinking, what I remember, or imagine. These pieces are unfiltered direct output - as honest...More »

Alexander and Bonin presents The Decade Review, an exhibition of new work by Fernando Bryce that chronicles the intellectual, political and cultural currents of the 1970s.
Fernando Bryce’s drawings systematically...More »

Peter Freeman, Inc. New York presents a retrospective exhibition of Franz Erhard Walther’s work in sculpture and drawing from over a period of 50 years. Curated by Erik Verhagen and Susanne Walther, Migration...More »

Blain|Southern New York presents L’appel du vide, an exhibition of new work by Rachel Howard. The artist’s first exhibition at the New York gallery, L’appel du vide will include painting, sculpture and...More »

To open the fall season, the George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of drawings by Robert Arneson on the theme of nuclear war. Part of a broader series of anti-war works dating from 1982 to 1986,...More »

This group exhibition explores the nature of inner life through three main themes: introspection, intimacy, and voyeurism. Focused upon the ways in which we reflect on ourselves and others, the works on...More »

What seems at first glance to be a kind of stamped tin ceiling underfoot, reveals itself as something else. Elaine Cameron-Weir reorients the gallery with a modular steel subflooring, typically installed...More »

Kentler International Drawing Space is pleased to present Imagined Language, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Hannah Israel.
Imagined Language investigates themes of connectivity, mapping...More »

Gaku Tsutaja: A Trip to the Moon (featured in the North Gallery) and Sherrill Roland: Inertia (displayed in the South Gallery) brings together two parallel exhibitions that showcase artists whose works...More »

Van Doren Waxter announces exclusive representation of the Estate of Tom Fairs. A highly anticipated exhibition of his rarely seen oils and paintings on paper, Tom Fairs in Color: Paintings and Drawings...More »

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery presents its third exhibition of work by the internationally-recognized digital artist Vera Molnar. Still active today at age 95, her remarkable practice encompasses painting,...More »

On view in Gallery 2 are selected prints dating from 1983 to 2016 by New York-based painter, Vija Celmins. Since the early 1960s, alongside her paintings and drawings, Celmins has developed an extraordinary...More »

Until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Japanese language did not have a word for fine art. The word bijutsu was constructed, combining Chinese characters bi, for beauty, and jutsu, for craft. This hybrid...More »

“New York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists” opens at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. The show will emphasize the contributions made to New York Dada by its three leading protagonists—Man Ray, Marcel...More »

Drawing on its remarkable collection of modern Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University presents Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby...More »

Curators: Margot Werner and Matthew Murphy, LAND Gallery, LETC
LAND presents the upcoming exhibition, Trading Spaces, at LIU Brooklyn’s Salena Gallery. This exciting show will feature works from LAND’s...More »

As part of our inaugural program at 540 West 25th Street, we will present a site-specific installation of custom wallpaper and framed paste paper works by Yto Barrada in the first-floor library.
Inspired...More »

The Met Breuer, Floor 2
The Met Breuer, Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context will present a diverse group of paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos made between 1944 and...More »

Permanent events

An innovative installation, featuring some of the most important objects in the Brooklyn Museum collection, has been developed to create new ways of looking at art and exploring the Museum by making connections...More »

92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit.
Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »

This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »